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Topic: Severe Neuropathy (Read 9097 times)

Just wondering how others have dealt with severe neuropathy. After 30 days of going to emergency rooms they finally admitted me and put me on Neurontin 300mg every 8 hours, though I am now up to 1200mg every 8 hours.

Was considering Massage therapy but not sure it will help.

Give me some insight please. Have not been sick for 21 years up to this... oggg

Thanks Rick

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Neuropathy is a pain, literally, isn't it. Is yours a result of the virus or the meds?

It really doesn't matter, because the pain is real whichever the cause.

Neurontin is the drug du jour for neuropathy. I've never taken it, but others have with varying degrees of success. Some take considerably more than you are taking.

I don't take any meds for my PN at the moment. To date, I have just put up with it. I have found that not letting my feet get too warm helps. Also, footwear is critical. Find a pair of comfy shoes and wear them.

Add Dr. Scholl's Gel Inserts if you need to. They can sometimes help.

If you look here on this forum, you will see another thread posted by AlanBama, who also suffers a great deal with PN.

A massage may help. Sometimes I find foot massages do and sometimes they don't. Sometimes I have just banged my foot against the wall or the furniture trying to get the stabbing pains to stop.

I know others will post here for you. They might have more advice that I just can't think of at the moment.

Thank you for the warm welcome. Until I found this list I thought I was the only Long termer..

Du Jour is right. The first pill of 300 they gave me I could feel something happening. Told them to quit teasing me and give me lots more. When I got out of the Hospital I was on 900mg x 8 hours, which I was happy as it brought the pain down from 20 to a 3. Then after a week home and tired of any pain I raised it which did the trick.. down to 0 now. MRI showed nothing so Neuropathy is the only thing they can figure. Do not know if it is the Virus or the drugs as I stopped the drugs as soon as the pain started. But the pain kept getting worse my butt even went numm.

Again thank you for the welcome.

Rick

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My PN is all residual from medications that I took in the early/mid-90's.

My new HIV Dr. thanks that that is what happened to me. I had severe leg pains on my old drugs, I stopped them then 2 days later the pain was gone. Went to Dr., old one at the VA that I fired, and she suggested I go back on and see what happens. After 2 weeks the pain was back, I quit taking the drugs again and 4 days later it was gone. Then 2 weeks later I was in the emergency room with pain. After going to VA ER 5 times, as it progressively got worse, they admitted me. They did a MRI and Cat Scan and could not find anything and told me they could not find anything and sent me home. In the VA they had me on 6cc's of Morphine which knocked me out but did nothing for the pain.

Pain continued to get worse and I was getting real numb on my butt so I went to a different hospital who admitted me, after 30 hours. Neurologist gave me the Nourton and it worked. I was ready to give up, after 30 days of such severe pain...

Question thought, does the Neuropathy effect anyones arms. Not that I can feel much pain, seems my arms are getting a little weird too.

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Thank you for the information. I will talk to the Neurologist when I go back in 3 months.

Rick

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I take 800 mgs of Neurontin 3 x a day and that seems to help (also take Ibuprofen 600 mgs 3 x a day, don't know if this does anything or not). I also have diabetes (which can make neuropathy much worse) and try to keep my sugars under control, though it's a bit hard at the holidays.

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Question thought, does the Neuropathy effect anyones arms. Not that I can feel much pain, seems my arms are getting a little weird too.

I get occasional lightning bolts of electricity down my arms, but not much -- it's generally confined to my legs. And it's always bolts, never a persistent numbness or pins/needles feeling for me, which from what I've seen this isn't the most common result of PN.

It got so bad for me that my Dr finally sent me to a pain clinic. Hopefully you have some in your area, it really helped me allot. Check it out. PM me if you want to know what I'm on. Best of luck. be open minded helps too!

Neuropathy got so bad for me that I had to be in a wheelchair for awhile. What helped me more than Neurotin was a small does of Elavil that my HIV doc put me on. What helped the best thought was changing my medication combo.

Good luck

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Thank you to everyone of you lots of good information that I will process and take to my dr. I hope none go through the pain I did.

Good luck, Rick

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